Historic photographs and drawings 

Images from the hospital's first 50 years, from the earliest drawing in about 1850 to photographs taken of patients being treated in the 1890s up to 1900. Click on an image to see an enlarged version. You will also
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The first 50 years
Melbourne's First Hospital The Foundation Stone was laid on the same day as that of the Princes Bridge, 20th March 1846, and the building completed two years later. (Photo courtesy of Public Library, Melbourne.)	Melbourne Hospital, 1870s,  corner of Lonsdale Street and Swanston Street.	Melbourne Hospital, 1870s,  corner of Lonsdale Street and Swanston Street. One of the earliest photographs of the hospital.
Picture caption: Clinic in the medical ward of Dr. John Williams at the Melbourne Hospital. (Circa 1890s)	Surgery at the Melbourne Hospital, circa 1890s. Note the absence of gloves or masks.	Medical students watch an operation from a special stand. More on first use of ether
	First Lady Superintendent Miss Isabella Rathie and the hospital's first Nightingale trained nurse, with her nursing staff in the 1890s. More on Isabella Rathie
Women's casualty, circa 1900	Men's casualty, circa 1900	Outpatients waiting room, circa 1900

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